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moscow says there's no alternative to the un envoy peace plan in syria with both sides to blame for the violence as russia proposes an international conference to resolve the conflict. spain confirms it will ask for up to one hundred billion euros to help the country's beleaguered banks after emergency talks with the eurozone minister of. russian tennis domination over wins the french open crown marking a victory in four grand slams. around the clock around the world international news and comment live from moscow russia says it will not let the u.n. security council sanction military action in syria foreign minister sergei lavrov
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has said external players are provoking the syrian opposition to continue fighting despite kofi annan peace plan with the country now on the brink of a full scale civil war or has the details russia wants to see a peaceful solution cheve through negotiations to the situation in syria. said that russia wouldn't accept any measures put through the united nations that could leave will be interpreted to allow any kind of outside military intervention sergei lavrov saying that kofi annan six point peace plan was still the only viable option for the government must in syria mustn't be blamed totally for what's happening in the country and said that the rebels have some responsibility to shoulder as well. when we hear reports of another massacre in syria and other atrocities almost daily many international media outlets. i want to put the blame
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entirely on assad the government of any country is of course responsible for what is happening in that country it's not the regime is not solely to blame we see massacres in houla terrorist attacks in damascus and aleppo that have been condemned by the u.n. security council all of this is a result of confrontations that are receiving more and more outside support firstly moral support for the so-called armed opposition then funding weapons and bringing militants from neighboring countries into syria in terms of what the next step could be for syria where russia features in that circle of rob saying that he wants to see a international conference held to discuss what the international community can do to try and sort things out in the arab state this conference would see the united states the european union as well as the permanent members of the the u.n. security council and also syria's neighbors being brought to the table also it will
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include countries like iran note so saying that when it comes to iran they have to be part of this discussion they were hugely influential with with the syrian government and the countries like the united states have in the past been willing to to discuss it is discuss issues with the run when it serves their purpose also secular from saying that countries have been quick to blame the government for massacres that have taken place before the results of the investigations that actually. have been made public also saying that the syrian people should be the ones to decide their future not any international power. if we are told that russia simply needs to order president assad around and everything will be sorted and then nothing can be done with such an attitude from our international colleagues that's why i say we need responsibility one word can ignite a fire that we won't be able to extinguished. we cannot be sending daily signals
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that make the opposition believe it will receive help just as libya received its so-called help russia is committed to not allowing the situation in syria to end up like the one we saw in libya. peter over there and u.n. observers in syria continue their investigation into an alleged massacre and become a province the monitors have visited the site of the killings but are unable to determine how many died or who was behind the slaughter patrick ase a reporter from the online magazine spiked believes outside military action in syria would only aggravate an already volatile situation i think it is very important to rule out military intervention to say actually this is the worst possible scenario in terms of allowing the syrian people to decide their own fate yes the situation in syria is horrid at the moment anyone with an ounce of humanity in them would over the last week really be troubled by the massacres that are taking place by the fighting that is taking place but you have to really resist
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kneejerk in polls to want to try me into other countries suffering conflicts and to say we can just step in and make things better in many situations and this would be the case in syria western intervention would intensify the conflicts and would take to make it far worse than it is now it's always important to bear that in mind when thinking about you know how best to intervene in these conflicts often the best intervention is not to intervene at all. spain has finally admitted it needs cash to help its troubled banks after emergency talks with the eurozone ministers the country's economy minister said madrid is going to ask for a loan greater than the forty billion euros recommended by the i.m.f. the international monetary fund well let's now talk to guns on a lira he was the founder of the strategic planning group at s.p.d. dot com well spain is the euro zone's fourth largest economy so what does this mean bank bailout now perhaps leading to
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a national bailout joining the ranks of greece portugal and ireland next. yes i think it is a problem that is this is context weaponless and so far they have promised a hundred billion euros now hundred billion euros in order to gain some perspective that was as roughly ten percent of spain's g.d.p. so it is. now of course you know you can any kind of deal at this of this the devil is in the details at this time the i.m.f. estimated that in order to save spain's banks they needed forty billion euros now there in spain is asking for one hundred. i think the notion is to secure the markets into thinking that the europeans can salvage spain and spain is not a problem i think that the markets are going to realize very quickly that this is a smokescreen i personally don't think that. either this will happen that this hundred billion euros will be just four over to spain's banks and even if it is it will have so many strings that for all intents and purposes it won't be really any kind of a handout it will be
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a some sort of an european nationalization of the spanish banking sector i think all of this is really a reaction to what is well on greece because as you know on june seventeenth greece is for him to have parliamentary elections and it's looking very likely that the greek people will vote against any kind of austerity for their austerity measures without you so i think other european power as. we european commission the i.m.f. and the in central bank are trying to come up with a way to save face and protect spain from what they perceive is going to be the great disaster of next months and say in effect you were talking about a smokescreen and what you just said now here we have the spanish banks oskin for money therefore by definition is spain bankrupt. is it is there's no other way to look at it ok any way you look at it in any kind of financial context and it's been bankrupt for a while now and december of the european central bank issued the famed l.c.r. a long term financing operations which were designed specifically to funnel money
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through the spanish banks to the spanish state that is the e.c.b. would lend money at very low interest to the banks especially they would turn around and take this money and lend it to the spanish government and by way of purchasing spanish sorry debt now that money is gone spain needs more money to spain and the country the nation the sovereign nation as well as spain's financial sector spending may grow there's no other way to look at it and this is just postponing the inevitable could go down a quick he's forty billion was in this really muted now it's one hundred billion where does that money come from and the eurozone this now. it's a really good question because they're saying oh under billion but where is it coming from who's in a four hundred billion and right now they're saying that this is the number that is going to be for work but where is it coming from i mean are you going to break some gigantic eventing get this money to the spanish banks of the spanish government i don't see that anywhere around so i think that this is just i don't really believe
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this to tell you that i think that this is just i mean one of the big question then is what does this do now for the confidence of the eurozone as a whole. i think it actually hurts the confidence because i don't think that most people most people who are involved in this sort of markets in the bond market i think that they're going to realize this is just showing moloney lust so as not to use a stronger language frankly this is just a smokescreen and it means absolutely nothing it's just heart and from what i perceive just looking at the facts and asking the obvious question of where is this money coming from and what is this money going to be used for exactly and what conditions are going to be needed for this money i don't really see that this is real i could be very wrong gods are the cream of our so you just looking at it i don't believe it thanks so much for your perspective good to hear from you guns on a layer there live in santiago in chile. this is our to be with you here in moscow twenty four hours a day coming up in the next few minutes packers who bring down government websites
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just peaceful demonstrators we speak to an indian activist as the country's internet users hold rallies against internet censorship. that's still to come for you but first russians violating protest regulations will now have to pay seven thousand euros all doctor two hundred hours of community service president putin stressed the new rally law is in line with the european standards the opposition is planning a so-called million man march next week but it looks like the movement is unlikely to live up to its former glory as artie's jake agrees reports. it's been dubbed moscow's take on the globe who occupy movement but lost in america canada and around the globe we've seen protesters bedding down in their thousands here they've never quite reached those numbers for the people needed to do these because most of them just come to us in the weekends and in the evenings fair where the support and a continual game of cat and mouse with the city's police has taken its toll it's
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all keep our style protest in moscow was only starting up a short time ago it's already is the poor seems to be dwindling for those with to come out and visibly show their support numbering fewer and fewer we're talking about tens rather than hundreds more often than not and what's left is a hardcore few struggling to keep this movement alive like occupy elsewhere this has been organized online and epitomized by their encampment but that's about where the similarities end rather than demonstrating against perceived social inequality this is principally about one man in charge president vladimir putin is a stance that has won them support spurred by the backlash from disputed parliamentary elections but it's a faction that has little else to agree on the silicon born the rate of fusion of very different political forces will have national socialists have already called
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bolsheviks here a lot of people who just don't want to log some people just want to have a party or so in this case when you have these fusion or very different political forces it's next to impossible for them to. have any demands symbolized by white ribbons the movement survived nearly half a year with mass peaceful demonstrations initially grabbing the public's attention hard to ignore some electoral reform has followed. but more recently the efforts of the marred by violence leading to a change of tactics swapping classes for camping the stage sit ins took root after a tweet by prominent activist alexina valmy arrests have followed but many don't see the police as the real threat to the movement's longevity ever since it is to the annals of a leader is always required as without a leader any movement is doomed to fail there is a unique situation here though as there is presently no leader here. i
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have not seen any leader that i can vote for myself but i held that this movement will result in the birth of a new smart balanced and you kidded leader their development as a movement is something many will be watching intensely currently it still ranks in its infancy finding its feet but to convince a nation let alone own supporters more than tents and twitter will be needed to grease moscow. after being branded a threat to national security by stony ati's eastern european correspondent alexia shetty travel to talent to try and get an explanation along with a number of russian and the stunning politicians he was put on a blacklist by security police after a series of reports about some of the country's policies here's alexis investigation into the events every time i travelled to a story i always enjoyed the wonderful hospitality the food and the sightseeing of this board to country on the journalism point of view over the past several years i
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produced several stories on social and economic issues here but i never expected that my reports from a store near would be regarded by some as a threat to national security. a report by the country's security police stated that my last three stories had an anti estonian tone and had nothing to do with the reality that is despite the fact these reports and rising near narcism a beauty of a new language law and the economic problems in the country featured prominent politicians and think tanks we went. the capitol tallent to investigate what this was all about and finding myself on that list certainly came as a big surprise until i managed to speak to some of the locals who say that being there is nothing out of the ordinary here is andré has also been the victim of the security police for several years now. and how long have you been on that list. for three years now and this is connected to my work as a producer for russian channels basically all people who are somehow connected to
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russia get on this list the police don't do anything bad to as only minor things for example last year forty five minutes after i talked to one of our chief producers on the phone i saw a parking fine on my car's windscreen it had been standing there for more than a year and then i suddenly got a fine among others to be blacklisted were russia's foreign minister almost every russian t.v. news station and a handful of us stoniest all politicians some of whom we in fact jumped to our defense dolan's mayor said in a statement that accusing r.t. of anti is stony and propaganda made the country a laughing stock we asked his closest political ally parliament member yeah the bomb as to why they risk their careers and decided to support us but when we deal of us. why did the mayor and your party try to defend our tea while personally rushing to pick on our list was not only about your can we believe this is
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undemocratic what gives them a right to label the media as safe and unsafe and putting black stains in certain people's reputations when i got on the very same list i told my mother about it she's old and she remembers soviet repression very well too upon hearing this news she nearly fainted and i had her doctor. to get on says i decided to go straight to the security police i was told their press officer was out of town but they gave me his telephone number i called. and he told me i had to address my questions by email. i did but all i got in response was this it seems that you haven't read our annual reviews they're public for everyone and the english translations can be found on our web page we have grown used to a stony as officials denying us interviews so this response was no surprise i did
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not receive any explanation either as to why my work is considered offensive in a store nor what consequences may face but i along with many a stone years on the blacklist hope that this mystery will soon be resolved with so many questions being asked the mess to clean about the actions of the security police and the country's leadership is now under severe pressure to deliver some answers in the middle of june we're expecting a stunning as prime minister to produce a statement explaining the actions of the organizations meanwhile found themselves on the blacklist in their home country hoping that this practice will be then abolished. r.t. reporting from tallinn in a story on. indian internet users have taken their grievances onto the streets with rallies across the country against online censorship anonymous operation india a branch of the global hacking group around agree about the laws that ban file sharing websites new delhi based activists did as bush believes anonymous are simply peaceful demonstrators. we are trying to reach out to the government of
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india and to tell them actively that this ban this censorship that they have put up on the whole country is unacceptable because millions and millions of people are getting affected by it sides being banned that is used daily by designers and pull makers to upload their video and get in touch with their clients and everything it has become almost impossible for them to conduct their daily business they're losing massive amounts of money and they're losing massive amounts of opportunities so it is a very destructive thing to ban the internet like that this thing that is widely referred to as hacking is not done by the anonymous group what anonymous does is something known as distributed denial of service which is known as a d.d. o. s. according to the two thousand and eight amendment of this bill this has been viewed as an offense but it is just a normal protest when people are protesting they're going and they're sitting in front of the offices of the organization you know they're blocking access to
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various functions of the of the government that is why what is happening it's just it's just a peaceful protest. internet freedom campaigners have taken to the streets of european cities as well protesters in germany austria and france are running against the controversial counterfeiting trade agreement which aims to curb piracy and protect copyright law critics of the proposal said it would harm freedom of expression privacy would come into force actor needs to be ratified by the european parliament the vote is that take place later this month. online battles continue as we report at r.t. dot com our web site anonymous activists have set their sights on neo nazis the area in front foreign has been targeted by the group you should have expected that that's the message from the hackers who reads the nationalist message boards also online for the moment. you check out our you tube channel to see how canadian students are now making their protest heard and seen but even half naked
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demonstrators are from arrest and that story the bare facts we had r.t. dot com. the u.s. is going to reopen to its former military bases in the philippines this comes just a week after the details of the pentagon's new asia pacific strategy were laid out with the bulk of america's warships to be deployed to the region by twenty twenty we're not today as the secretary general of the political coalition thinks the move is aimed at china. in line with the u.s. strategy of rebalancing their forces the u.s. is seeking more access to these former basis though they may not be going after formal basing agreements they would have unlimited access to decent cities and many other facilities all over the country so that their ships can stop over a few well and be stationed for periods specially during military exercises and this all of these would transform the philippines into
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a military outpost that would allow the united states to project its power throughout southeast asia an increased presence of u.s. troops would complicate matters between the philippines and china. stabilize the situation it might be seen as a provocative action it might spark some kind of arms strace in the south china sea with the growing number of u.s. warships entering the country and the u.s. may not be headed for a direct military confrontation with china at the moment but the u.s. wants to contain china wants to encircle china and keep it subservient to us the. u.k. politicians are said to be questioned on why a security firm linked to allegations of human rights abuses could have been hard to provide safety during the london olympics g four s. also operates in the jewish settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem which are illegal according to international law let's now talk to us a journalist tony gosling is joining me live now in bristol why has
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a firm with such a questionable reputation been chosen to provide security during the london games tony. well it's a great question bill because even the british foreign secretary william hague cite the israeli settlements are illegal under international war law and the biggest obstacle to the peace process so what is this firm that is actually supplying all sorts of equipment to the israeli army including helping out the checkpoints which is effectively you know pro apartheid a pro racism being involved in the olympics for you know it is absolutely outrageous and i think it will be really good to see at least some moral conscience in the coming week by the british parliament by saying no we're going to terminate this g four s. contract the trouble is of course this is a massive very powerful company and you know when you're privatizing security this is basically the privatization of the british police force is being sucked in by g four s. what they're doing is they're starting to operate police stations they're also
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starting to do a lot of the back door work with the police the civilian support work for the police and they're even now trying to get contracts bidding for contracts in birmingham and elsewhere to operate the detention facilities inside the existing police stations so you know this is a very bad a very dangerous idea to start with but this particular company seems to be about the worst you could pick in anywhere in the world to do this job we're talking about its history the firm lost its contract to the port failed asylum seekers in the u.k. last september following the death of a mango an asylum seeker who died after being restrained by its employees are you surprised that actually it still of allowed to operate. well that's. not saying trivializing the fact of that one death but there's also been seven hundred fifty plus complaints of abuse by g four s. employees this is a real serious problem the other thing that g four s. are doing is they're now operating private prisons too so we have
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a very dangerous organization the reason i say that is because what's happened is we've created by privatizing our prisons to people our g four s. an incentive a financial incentive to incarcerate people what we don't want to see here in britain is what we've had over in the united states where basically being homeless being poor and having to sort of turn to alternative methods of maybe maybe to the black market to try to make a living means that thousands if not millions and millions of people now in the u.s. and probably here in the u.k. soon too are going to be incarcerated for private profit and this this creates an incentive to make poor people criminalize them you know just briefly you mentioned that grilling in westminster this is going to have in the next week or so do you think the british parliament could intervene and they could terminate this contract . well it's a difficult thing to do to the olympics that this final stage will soar towards one when the olympics actually happen yes that's a very difficult thing for them to do but i'd like to see
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a bit of spine from our parliament to say that these are not appropriate people to be doing that a lot of people involved in the olympics as you probably know who aren't really appropriate such as the dow chemical company who when they bought union carbide really took on the responsibility for the deaths of four thousand people in a gas cloud in india and the maiming of countless more who were poisoned by the by the dow chemical company i think there's been a real complete kind of mismatch in this olympics with trying to bring in really explain a century prostitute the olympics and give a lot of these poisonous very profitable and actually very dark nasty companies greenwash for them that is to say to sanitize their images so show eating them with the olympic event and that is not what the olympics are for to look rather more like the burly ninety thirty six olympics than the good old london nineteen forty eight olympics which were done in a much nicer fashion without all this horrible corporate sponsorship tony gosling
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live there in bristol in the u.k. thanks very much for your perspective. thank you well let's check out some more world news in brief for you this hour four french soldiers were killed after a taliban suicide bomber disguised as a woman blew himself up in eastern afghanistan five others were wounded in the blast it was the second deadly assault on saturday against nato forces france plans will draw all of its combat troops by the end of twenty twelve two years ahead of the planned pullout agreed by the alliance. for members of the international criminal court have been detained in libya after meeting with gadhafi son saif al islam earlier reports claimed one of the lawyers was held after trying to deliver documents that libyan authorities said were a danger to national security saif al islam is accused of his role in the killing of protesters during the revolt that toppled his farm. at least eight civilians have been killed in an ambush in ivory coast near its border with liberia seven un peacekeepers who were part of a patrol in a remote village also died in the violence it's not clear who is behind the
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killings un has had a peace observer mission in the country since two thousand and four to help end its civil. risher up of a has won the prestigious french open in paris the twenty five year old russian tennis star has become the only tenth woman in history to conquer all four majors and our sport presenter paul scott reflects now on her achievement . amongst the greatest players of all time to have ever walked the planet to ever play the game of tennis shopper who won the wimbledon on grass at the age of seventeen that was back in two thousand and four since then she went on to win the u.s. open in two thousand and six the australian open in two thousand and eight and she's had this four year wait to complete the career grand slam and pick up the french title which she's done today and she's had a massive shoulder injury really affected the way she was playing she had surgery on it she had to adapt to the way she played and there were genuine question serious questions as to whether she would come back and be the player that she was whether she was going to fulfill that potential she showed in the seventeen year old and i think she won her last grand slam when she was twenty one so it's been
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a long long way despite that though she came through she was dominant all week and she was dominant again today in the final six three six if you look at the women's game at the moment you look at serena williams venus williams they're coming to the end of their career since rapper was last world number one back in two thousand and eight the top spot the top ranking is changed fifteen times and a different women have been the world number one there's been no one in the sport has dominated it maybe now she's back injuries for them to one side she's now got the french open under about maybe there's no reason why not it can't be sure apple who dominates in years to come. talk to a little earlier and we'll have more details on this spectacular victory in paul's sport bulletin that's in just over an hour from now well still ahead. exposed the dark secrets of the global financial industry in the cars report that's after the headlines stay with us live this is out in moscow.
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